In the beginning, there was nothing—no time, no space, no dimension. Only a boundless, silent void: an infinite blank canvas awaiting a brushstroke. From this absolute emptiness, a sentient presence stirred—a divine entity whose very essence resonated with creation itself. With its awakening, an orb emerged, glimmering with latent possibility. Within this orb, entire galaxies unfolded, accompanied by layers of dimensions and nested pocket realities.
"Universe," the deity declared, and by that utterance alone, the first cosmos sprang into being—a radiant sphere suspended in a sea of shadow. But this single act of creation proved insufficient. With a flick of its finger, another universe materialized beside the first. Still unsatisfied, the deity twitched its fingers again, and again. One by one, new universes blossomed into existence, until twenty-six stood aligned—a chain of multidimensional, luminous spheres floating in ordered chaos.
Yet the multiverse remained eerily silent, lifeless save for the distant hum of these cosmic constructs. Seeking to break the stillness, the deity blinked, and life erupted across the newly formed multiverse: animals, humans, and myriad other beings came into being across countless worlds. Each passing Planck instant birthed untold numbers of new realities, each an iteration of possibility, for the deity had grown bored. From its restlessness came abundance—worlds layered upon worlds, timelines diverging without end.
Longing to further enrich existence, the deity willed powers and supernatural phenomena into reality, infusing the multiverse with wonder and chaos alike. From this, infinite timelines emerged, each giving rise to infinite universes, collectively forming what would be known as omniverses. Beyond that, the deity constructed infinite sets of realities, planes, and layers of existence, each nested within the next in a recursive structure of incomprehensible depth.
These existential structures formed what the deity named the Ladders—infinite hierarchies of dimensional and metaphysical ascent. At the base of each Ladder lay the Base Realms; above them, the Alpha Realms, where dimensionality and even conceptual boundaries began to lose meaning. At the summit were the Outer Realms, existing in complete transcendence over all that lay below. Each layer of this hierarchy perceived the one beneath it as mere fiction.
But even this vast framework was only a foundation. The deity went further still, erecting an even greater field of being: Ascension. Unlike the prior layers, Ascensions existed purely on a conceptual level, utterly divorced from any notion of dimension, form, or structure. Each Ascension encompassed infinite omniverses and hierarchies and regarded everything below it as illusory. And just as there were endless Ladders, so too were there innumerable Ascensions.
Within these two fields—the finite, dimensional Ladders and the limitless, abstract Ascensions—lay infinite cosmologies. Every conceivable idea, construct, or metaphysical framework had already been realized. The deity, by extension, stood beyond all such realities—beyond concepts, beyond possibility or impossibility. It was a being unbound by language or logic, with access to all powers and abilities imaginable and beyond.
At last, the deity deemed its work complete. Without a word, it departed—its destination unknown, its presence absent from the worlds it had birthed. But its legacy remained: a cosmos of boundless complexity and chaotic beauty.
And one truth endured above all else:
The deity left behind a glorious, incomprehensible mess.